Graduate Grue Bag Conference

The Grue Bag Conferences are one-day internal conferences we run at the start of every semester. The presenters and attendees are all UConn students, and presentations run in two parallel sessions. Here are schedules for past Grue Bag Conferences and known future Grue Bag Conferences.

Spring 2015

January 24, 2015

Laurel Hall 110/111

Schedule TBA

 

Fall 2014

August 30, 2014

Oak Hall 108/109

Green Session Blue Session
Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco “Toward a Concept of Suffering” Andrew Parisi “Modality and Proof Theory”
Morgan Thomas “Naïve Set Theory via Semi-Formal Reasoning” Tom Meagher “W.E.B. DuBois, Sylvia Wynter, and the Human Sciences”
Nathan Kellen “A Puzzle About Promising and Consent” Jordan Ochs “Foundational Cognition”
Junyeol Kim “Horwichian Minimalism and the Aboutness of Propositions” Ralph DiFranco “Do Racists Speak Truly? On the Truth-Conditional Content of Slurs”
Hanna Gunn “Rigging the Game: Oppression in Speech” Nate Sheff “Can Pettit Recognize Rights?”
Kathy Fazekas “The Functional Role of the Passage of Time” Mike Robillard “Bystander, Innocent Threats, and Types of Obstructors”